Gay, sgle, divorced, remarried: Democratic ndidat reflect the changg Amerin fay

Contents:

• MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT
• GAY, SGLE, DIVORCED, REMARRIED: DEMOCRATIC NDIDAT REFLECT THE CHANGG AMERIN FAY
• A MARRIED GAY MAN IS NNG FOR PRINT. THAT’S A BIG AL.
• PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS GAY PRINTS HAVE ALREADY BEEN ELECTED BUT DON'T KNOW WHICH ON: 'MY GAYDAR DON'T EVEN WORK THAT WELL THE PRENT'
• PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY DEMOCRAT TO N FOR PRINT
• PETE BUTTIGIEG IS MAKG HISTORY WH 2020 N, BUT MANY AMERINS THK US NOT READY FOR GAY PRINT

MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT

Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, beme the first openly gay ndidate the 2020 printial race Wednday, jog an already crowd field of Democratic hopefuls.

GAY, SGLE, DIVORCED, REMARRIED: DEMOCRATIC NDIDAT REFLECT THE CHANGG AMERIN FAY

“I’m om the Midwt, so the issu of makg sure that we have a posive way forward for workers and fai the dtrial Midwt — this is not theoretil for me, ’s my home, ” Buttigieg Buttigieg were to overe the long odds and bee the Democratic nomee for print, he would be the first openly gay nomee and the first veteran of the Afghanistan War, where he served a tour as a Naval Rerve officer. “I was well to adulthood before I was prepared to acknowledge the simple fact that I am gay, ” Buttigieg wrote at the time. Asked if he meant to nvey support for same-sex marriage, he replied: “No, ’ before sayg that gay marriage is ‘legally acceptable’ Virgia and that “I, as ernor, will support that.

History, Ron DeSantis has ma the missn of his ernorship to attack queer and trans people, whether ’s children or fai, or addn to his dranian “don’t say gay” law that forbids the discsn of the existence of LGBTQ+ people or their experienc the world schools through high school graduatn, he has stripped parents of the right to accs life-savg, medilly proven, and endorsed re for their children. Ron DeSantis, did not go far enough wh his “don’t say gay” law.

A MARRIED GAY MAN IS NNG FOR PRINT. THAT’S A BIG AL.

A noted homophobe, former vice print Mike Pence is known for his anti-LGBTQ+ remarks and actns. Clayton County se, his admistratn argued that gay and trans workers were not protected by feral civil rights law. In 2020 however, the Supreme Court led that Tle VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protected gay and transgenr employe om said 2021 that “We will ban men om participatg women’s sports, ” durg a rally Texas, NBC reported.

” Now, many historians say Buchanan was most likely gay and he's been regard more warmly for 's a change Buttigieg pecially is aware of — even though he said his "gaydar" isn't powerful enough to terme Buchanan's sexualy. Should Buttigieg w his long-shot bid for the Democratic nomatn, he will bee the first nomee of a major polil party who publicly intifi as gay. That a gay married man is nng a ser mpaign for print, however, is a big al, and we shouldn’t let the improbabily of his ndidacy stop om acknowledgg this moment.

PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS GAY PRINTS HAVE ALREADY BEEN ELECTED BUT DON'T KNOW WHICH ON: 'MY GAYDAR DON'T EVEN WORK THAT WELL THE PRENT'

Gay marriage was legal only two stat January 2009 – Massachetts and Connecticut. Barack Obama beme Print, and although he was supportive of expandg legal rights for the LGBT muny and gay upl, he was on the rerd durg his mpaign as beg opposed to same-sex marriage. I am not favor of gay marriage, ” Obama told MTV News durg the 2008 mpaign.

In 2010, Print Obama signed to law the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act, endg a policy enacted 1993 that prevent gay men and lbians om servg openly the ary. Three years later, the Supreme Court led that stat nnot ban same-sex marriage, makg legal natnwi for gay and lbian upl to marry.

And durg this time, ndidat who publicly intify as gay, bisexual and transgenr have broken barriers wh their ws.

PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY DEMOCRAT TO N FOR PRINT

In 2012, Wisns’s Tammy Baldw beme the first gay person elected to the US Senate (she was re-elected 2018). In last year’s midterm electns, Colorado’s Jared Polis beme the first gay man the US to be elected ernor, Kyrsten Sema, who is bisexual, won a US Senate seat Arizona, and Sharice Davids, a lbian, won her US Hoe race Kansas.

All of this is to say, que simply, that a relatively brief perd of time, the polics surroundg gay marriage and LGBT equaly shifted dramatilly. For a lol stunt stgglg wh her sexualy, might be helpful for an openly gay mayor to send the msage that her muny will always have a place for her. And for a nservative rint om a different generatn, whose unease wh social change is partly rooted the imprsn that he don’t know anyone gay, perhaps a faiar face n be a remr that we’re all this together as a muny.

But one thg is for sure: Havg a gay ndidate – or nomee, or print – is no longer such a farfetched ia. Democratic printial ndidate Pete Buttigieg said 's "almost certa" Ameri has had gay manrs--chief an terview wh Axs on HBO. Buttigieg ma the remarks after executive edor Mike Allen asked how the South Bend mayor would rpond to Republins that acce him of beg "too young, too liberal [and] too gay" to be print.

PETE BUTTIGIEG IS MAKG HISTORY WH 2020 N, BUT MANY AMERINS THK US NOT READY FOR GAY PRINT

"He ntued: "I would image we've probably had excellent prints who were gay—we jt didn't know which on. Print might be, or might have been gay, Buttigieg ntued: "My gaydar don't even work that well the prent, let alone retroactively. Although 's impossible to know exactly how many Amerin men intify as gay—and have done the past—nearly 4 percent of men surveyed a 2017 Gallup poll intified as LGBT ialism, which stands for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr, enpass a wir spe of sexual orientatn and genr inty than gay, non-transgenr man.